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SynthesisThe Journal of international medical research2020

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T polymorphism and diabetic retinopathy risk: a meta-analysis of the Chinese population.

Wei-Hai Xu, Ying Zhuang, Xiao Han, Zhi-Lan Yuan

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Synthesis in The Journal of international medical research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Wei-Hai XuDepartment of Ophthalmology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
Ying ZhuangDepartment of Ophthalmology, Binhai County People's Hospital, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, China.
Xiao HanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Key Laboratory of Human Functional Genomics of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5882-4286
Zhi-Lan YuanDepartment of Ophthalmology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseAllelesAsian PeopleCase-Control StudiesDiabetic RetinopathyGenetic Association StudiesHumansMethylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (NADPH2)Polymorphism, Single NucleotideRisk FactorsMethylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (NADPH2)Chinesediabetic retinopathydisease riskgeographic analysismeta-analysisMethylenetetrahydrofolate reductasepolymorphism

Identifiers

PMID30628508
PMCPMC7140216

What Socratic holds

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